Was the constitution to blame for the civil war
...s the constitution kept getting ratified to add more reasons of having slavery. The majority of the acts were added to put limits on people who didn’t believe and slavery. Instead of protecting and constituting the whole nation the Constitution only constituted part of the nation and their beliefs. The Untied States Constitution was basically going against itself and what it had stated in the beginning. The government tries to grant freedom but really keeps some humans from actually having freedom. The Constitution is suppose to keep us all under one government but still allows us to have right to our freedom. The government is lying to itself because the Constitution is not providing that for all human beings. Everytime a law is passed or put up to be ratified to back it up or to go against it the politicians always use the Constitution. They are interpreting one document into two ways and opinions or beliefs on slavery. In a loose interpretation of the Constitution it allows other U.S. citizens to enslave another human. In a strict interpretation of the Constitution it never allows anyone to be enslaved. Slavery is not mentioned throughout the Constitution at this point. In 1843, radical abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison called the Constitution of the United States, "a covenant with death and an agreement with hell." Because it sanctioned slavery, one of the greatest crimes that one person can commit against another. Slavery was thought by abolitionists to be a violation of the natural rights of man. Yet the original U.S. Constitution was widely thought to have sanctioned this crime. Even today, many still believe that, until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment prohibiting involuntary servitude, slavery previously had been constitutional, and for this reason, the original Constitution was deeply flawed. Many Northerners insisted that slavery was not only a moral abomination; it was also unconstitutional. So in fact the Constitution is unclear of what it states about slavery. This foremost caused the North and South to spilt because two opinions weren’t be governed well enough by one document that was so unclear. The fugitive slave law was accounted by most as unconstitutional. It is invading on peoples freedom rights to have to be forced to do something they wish not to. People were forced against their will to capture runaway slaves even if they didn’t approve of slavery. This law was inflicting with the first amendment of the Constitution. The Constitution is not keeping its purpose after all of these laws being added to it. Controversy between the North and South raged for years over administration and enactment of tariff laws. A new wrinkle was added when the North began to openly defy fugitive slave laws. Northern states refused to honor warrants for capture and return of slaves to the South. The North's attitude was in direct defiance of federal law and of the Constitution which clearly mandates that each state of the Union must recognize Constitutional laws of all other states. Additionally, the federal government refused to intervene on behalf of the South. During the elections of 1860 Abraham Lincoln made it clear that he would not enforce fugitive slave laws and that he supported existing tariff laws and administration. The Constitution clearly stated that the Northerners had to go against their right of Freedom of speech. The Northerners had to obey the Constitution and it offended their right. The Constitution was causing dividing and splitting between the North and South’s opinions on slavery. The reaction from Northerners was to defy such laws that were causing them to be forced to help the institution of slavery. The North didn’t really step in and start helping slaves until Lincoln became President. Northerners had ways of helping and trying to stop slavery but they weren’t tremendous enough to cause a conflict. So until Lincoln became President others were forcing Freesoilers to deal with slavery. They were enforcing that slavery was Constitutional, the Fugitive Slave Law Act, and other dramatic measures that ke...